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#ifndef __FRAMEWORK_MACROS_GENERIC_HXX_
#define __FRAMEWORK_MACROS_GENERIC_HXX_

//_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
//	includes
//_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
#include <rtl/textenc.h>

//*****************************************************************************************************************
//	generic macros
//*****************************************************************************************************************

/*_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
	DECLARE_ASCII( SASCIIVALUE )

	Use it to declare a constant ascii value at compile time in code.
	zB. OUSting sTest = DECLARE_ASCII( "Test" )
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________*/

#define	DECLARE_ASCII( SASCIIVALUE )																			\
	::rtl::OUString( RTL_CONSTASCII_USTRINGPARAM( SASCIIVALUE ) )

/*_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
	U2B( SUNICODEVALUE )
	B2U( SASCIIVALUE )
	U2B_ENC( SUNICODEVALUE, AENCODING )
	B2U_ENC( SASCIIVALUE, AENCODING )

	Use it to convert unicode strings to ascii values and reverse ...
	We use UTF8 as default textencoding. If you will change this use U2B_ENC and B2U_ENC!
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________*/

#define	U2B( SUNICODEVALUE )																					\
	::rtl::OUStringToOString( SUNICODEVALUE, RTL_TEXTENCODING_UTF8 )

#define	B2U( SASCIIVALUE )																						\
	::rtl::OStringToOUString( SASCIIVALUE, RTL_TEXTENCODING_UTF8 )

#define	U2B_ENC( SUNICODEVALUE, AENCODING )																		\
	::rtl::OUStringToOString( SUNICODEVALUE, AENCODING )

#define	B2U_ENC( SASCIIVALUE, AENCODING )																		\
	::rtl::OStringToOUString( SASCIIVALUE, AENCODING )

//*****************************************************************************************************************
//	end of file
//*****************************************************************************************************************

#endif	//	#ifndef __FRAMEWORK_MACROS_GENERIC_HXX_
